# Deaths in June 2001
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2001.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## June 2001
### 1

* Peter Corr, 77, Irish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Nkosi Johnson, 12, South African AIDS awareness campaigner, AIDS.
* Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), prostate cancer.
* Abe Silverstein, 92, American aerospace engineer.
* Victims of the Nepalese royal massacre
** King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal
** Queen Aishwarya, 51, Queen of Nepal
** Prince Nirajan, 22, son of Birendra and Aishwarya
** Princess Shruti, 24, daughter of Birendra and Aishwarya
** Prince Dhirendra, 51, brother of King Birendra
** Princess Shanti, 60, sister of King Birendra
** Princess Sharada, 59, sister of King Birendra
** Princess Jayanti, 54, cousin of King Birendra

### 2

* Jim Bragan, 72, American baseball player, manager, and scout.
* Imogene Coca, 92, American actress (Your Show of Shows), Alzheimer's disease.
* John T. Fesperman, 76, American conductor, organist and author.
* Kenneth Hayr, 66, British air marshal.
* Joey Maxim, 79, American light heavyweight boxing champion.
* Viktor Popkov, 54, Russian dissident, human rights activist and journalist, shot.
* Pilar Seurat, 62, Filipino American film and television actress, lung cancer.
* Frank Stagg, 89, American Southern Baptist theologian and author.
* Adolf Thiel, 86, Austrian-German rocket scientist.
* Gene Woodling, 78, American baseball player.

### 3

* Humayun Abdulali, 87, Indian ornithologist and biologist.
* Nicholas Albery, 52, British social inventor and author, car accident.
* J. C. Furnas, 95, American writer and social historian.
* Otto Hemele, 75, Czech football player.
* Jamake Highwater, 70, American writer and journalist, heart attack.
* Andrea Prader, 81, Swiss scientist, physician, and pediatric endocrinologist.
* Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1953, 1957), pneumonia.
* Friedl Rinder, 95, German chess master.
* Nino Valdez, 76, Cuban heavyweight boxing champion.

### 4

* Simone Benmussa, 69, French-Algerian author and theatre director, cancer.
* John Corriden, 83, American baseball player.
* John Hartford, 63, American musician and composer ("Gentle on My Mind"), lymphoma.
* Chenjerai Hunzvi, 51, Zimbabwean politician, AIDS.
* Dinos Iliopoulos, 85, Greek actor.
* Lu Jiaxi, 85, Chinese physical chemist.
* Felicitas Kukuck, 86, German music educator and composer of opera and other works.
* Dipendra of Nepal, 29, Nepalese monarch and mass murderer, King of Nepal, perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, suicide by gunshot.
* Darshan Ranganathan, 60, Indian organic chemist, breast cancer.
* Ruth Sanger, 82, Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist.
* Horst Tüller, 70, German road and track cyclist.
* Joan Vohs, 73, American model and actress (Fort Ti, Fireside Theater, Maverick, Perry Mason, Family Affair).

### 5

* Pedro Laín Entralgo, 93, Spanish medical historian.
* Dennis Gillespie, 65, Scottish footballer.
* Aaron Green, 84, American architect.
* Howard Earl Johnston, 72, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons).
* L. Fletcher Prouty, 84, American Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

### 6

* Alfonso Brescia, 71, Italian film director.
* Marie Brémont, 115, French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world.
* José Manuel Castañón, 81, Spanish writer.
* Ford Garrison, 85, American baseball player.
* Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.
* Ami Priyono, 61, Indonesian film director and actor.
* Suzanne Schiffman, 71, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
* Lyubov Sokolova, 79, Soviet/Russian film actress, heart attack.

### 7

* Franco Balducci, 78, Italian film actor.
* Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 93, Bolivian politician and four-term President of Bolivia.
* Carole Fredericks, 49, American singer, heart attack.
* Ken Green, 77, English footballer.
* Boris Lavrenko, 81, Russian painter.
* Betty Neels, 91, British novelist.
* Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Horace Walker, 64, American NBA Basketball player.

### 8

* Sam Boyd, 86, American football player and coach.
* Alex de Renzy, 65, American director and producer of pornographic movies, cerebrovascular disease.
* Lucien Lauk, 89, French racing cyclist.
* Duncan MacIntyre, 85, New Zealand politician.
* Kotayya Pratyagatma, 75, Indian film journalist, director and producer.
* Dennis Puleston, 95, British-American environmentalist, adventurer and designer.
* Nathaniel Rochester, 82, American computer scientist.
* Don Roper, 78, English footballer.
* Harry Watson, 79, American child actor and television journalism pioneer.

### 9

* Ronnie Allen, 72, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
* Malcolm Cooper, 53, British sport shooter, cancer.
* Richard T. Hanna, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 34th congressional district), (Koreagate).
* Savva Kulish, 64, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cerebrovascular disease.
* Yaltah Menuhin, 79, American-British pianist, artist and poet.
* Deirdre O'Connell, 61, Irish American actress, singer, and theatre director, cancer.
* Branko Pleša, 75, Serbian actor and theatre director.

### 10

* Joyce King, 80, Australian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.
* Jochen Liedtke, 48, German computer scientist.
* John McKay, 77, American football assistant coach (Oregon Ducks) and head coach (USC Trojans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), diabetes.
* Mike Mentzer, 49, American bodybuilder, complications from IgA nephropathy.
* Leila Pahlavi, 31, Iranian Princess and daughter of the Shah of Iran, suicide.
* Alexander Zuyev, 39, Soviet pilot who defected to the US, plane crash.

### 11

* Lincoln Constance, 92, American botanist.
* Pierre Eyt, 67, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
* Lou Lombardo, 72, American baseball player.
* Trevor Madondo, 24, Zimbabwean cricket player, malaria.
* Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist (Oklahoma City bombing), execution by lethal injection.
* Amalia Mendoza, 77, Mexican singer ("Échame a mi la culpa", "Amarga navidad"), lung disease.
* John Elvin Shaffner, 90, Canadian businessman and political figure.

### 12

* Carl-Axel Acking, 91, Swedish architect, author and furniture designer.
* Joseph Brady, 72, Scottish actor.
* Owen Bush, 79, American television announcer and actor.
* Peggy Cartwright, 88, Canadian silent film actress.
* W. D. Davies, 89-90, Welsh congregationalist minister and theologian.
* Viktor Hamburger, 100, German embryologist.
* Ray Mentzer, 47, American bodybuilder.
* Nkem Nwankwo, 65, Nigerian novelist and poet.
* Jim Seminoff, 78, American basketball player.
* Joseph W. Twinam, 66, American diplomat.
* Paula Wiesinger, 94, Italian Olympic alpine skier and mountain climber.
* Thomas Wilson, 73, Scottish composer.

### 13

* Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.
* Marcelo Fromer, 39, Brazilian rock musician, traffic accident.
* Luise Krüger, 86, German athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
* Makanda Ken McIntyre, 69, American jazz musician and composer.
* Yoshishige Saitō, 97, Japanese visual artist and art educator.
* Rajzel Zychlinski, 90, Polish poet.

### 14

* Paul Carey, 38, American civil servant, endocrine cancer.
* Oleg Fedoseyev, 65, Soviet Olympic long jump and triple jump athlete (silver medal winner in men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
* Miroslav Marcovich, 82, Serbian-American philologist.
* Gerry Melnyk, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Jay D. Scott, 48, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Horace M. Wade, 85, American Air Force general.

### 15

* Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.
* Mikhail Gluzsky, 82, Soviet/Russian actor, heart attack.
* Leif Kayser, 82, Danish composer and organist.
* Jay Moriarity, 22, American surfer, drowned.
* Thomas S. Noonan, 63, American historian and anthropologist, cancer.
* Marcelino Solis, 70, Mexican baseball player.

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* Joe Darion, 84, American musical theatre lyricist (two-time Tony Award winner for Man of La Mancha: Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score).
* Alessandro Faedo, 87, Italian mathematician and politician.
* Marta Hillers, 90, German journalist and author.
* Wally Hood, 75, American baseball player.
* Sam Jethroe, 84, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Jay Rabinowitz, 74, American lawyer and jurist, complications of leukemia.
* Jean-Maurice Simard, 69, Canadian Chartered Accountant and politician.
* Sava Vuković, 71, Serbian Orthodox bishop.
* Arthur Wheeler, 85, British motorcyclist.

### 17

* Diana Bellamy, 57, American actress (Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Outbreak, Popular), cancer.
* John Broderick, 58, American film director, producer and screenwriter, kidney failure.
* Donald J. Cram, 82, American chemist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, cancer.
* Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, American restaurateur, bone cancer.
* Thomas Winning, 76, Scottish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.
* Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.

### 18

* Allan Burdon, 86, Australian politician.
* Janine Crispin, 89, French film and television actress.
* René Dumont, 97, French engineer, sociologist, and politician.
* Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, British social welfare official and head of the NSPCC.
* Gao Kelin, 94, Chinese politician.
* Davorin Popović, 54, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
* Paolo Emilio Taviani, 88, Italian politician, economist and historian.
* Karl Friedrich Titho, 90, German SS officer and war criminal during WorldWar II.

### 19

* Sargis Baghdasaryan, 77, Soviet Armenian sculptor.
* Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
* Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
* William Austin Forsyth, 83, Canadian politician.
* Juan Garza, 44, American murderer and drug trafficker, execution by lethal injection.
* John Heyer, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker (The Back of Beyond).
* Ludwig Hörmann, 82, German cyclist.
* Tom Keane, 74, American gridiron football player.
* Robert Klippel, 81, Australian sculptor.
* Sergio Litvak, 100, Chilean football goalkeeper.
* Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
* Lee Mishkin, 74, American animator and director, heart failure.
* Stanley Mosk, 88, American jurist, politician, and attorney.
* Brian O'Shaughnessy, 70, British-South African film actor.
* C. R. Pattabhiraman, 94, Indian lawyer and politician.
* Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry, 50, Indian screenwriter, director and actor, heart attack.
* David Sylvester, 76, British art critic.
* Eddie Vartan, 63, French musician, bandleader, arranger, and record producer, cerebral hemorrhage.

### 20

* Ernest Bour, 88, French conductor.
* Geoff Brown, 77, Australian tennis player.
* Angela Browne, 63, British actress (Ghost Squad, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).
* Tom Burns, 88, English sociologist and author.
* Bob Keegan, 80, American baseball player.
* Bert Kramer, 66, American actor (Kojak, The Bionic Woman, The Rockford Files, Dallas, Dynasty, Matlock).
* Patrick F. McDonough, Irish-American police officer, attorney, and politician.
* Zygmunt Pawlas, 70, Polish fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
* Massimo Pirri, 55, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Frederick Russell, 77, Canadian businessman and lieutenant governor of Newfoundland.

### 21

* John Lee Hooker, 83, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist ("Boogie Chillen'", "Boom Boom", "Dimples").
* Soad Hosny, 58, Egyptian actress ("Cinderella of Egyptian cinema"), fall.
* Károly Janza, 87, Hungarian military officer and politician.
* François Lesure, 78, French librarian and musicologist.
* K. V. Mahadevan, 83, Indian singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician.
* Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night, Cleopatra), five-time Emmy winner, heart attack.
* Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.

### 22

* Mario Agüero, 77, Cuban basketball player.
* Arbi Barayev, 27, Chechen warlord and terrorist, killed in action.
* Luis Carniglia, 83, Argentine footballer and manager.
* George Evans, 81, American comic book and comic strip cartoonist and illustrator.
* John Herbert, 74, Canadian playwright (Fortune and Men's Eyes).
* Manuel Ledesma, 80, Chilean basketball player.
* Wendell L. Minckley, 65, American ichthyologist and academic.
* George Westwell, 70, Maltese anglican priest.
* Lika Yanko, 73, Bulgarian artist, pneumonia.

### 23

* Odd Abrahamsen, 77, Norwegian poet.
* Corinne Calvet, 76, French actress (What Price Glory?, Sailor Beware, So This Is Paris, On the Riviera).
* Panteley Dimitrov, 60, Bulgarian footballer.
* Yvonne Dionne, 67, Canadian quintuplet (first known quintuplets to have survived their infancy).

### 24

* Muhammad Bashir, 66, Pakistani wrestler.
* Antonio Ber Ciani, 93, Argentine actor and film director.
* Robert M. McKinney, 90, American news editor and diplomat.
* Avadhanam Sita Raman, 82, Indian writer and journalist.
* Nicola Ann Raphael, 15, Scottish schoolgirl and bullying victim, suicide by drug overdose.
* Milton Santos, 75, Brazilian geographer, prostate cancer.
* William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.

### 25

* Hans Dürst, 79, Swiss ice hockey player.
* Hasan Gemici, 74, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer and Olympic champion.
* Gabriel Hernández, 27, Dominican Olympic boxer (light heavyweight boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics), suicide by hanging.
* Kurt Hoffmann, 90, German film director and son of Carl Hoffmann.
* Frederick C. Langone, American politician.
* John LeRoy, 26, American baseball player, brain aneurysm.
* George Senesky, 79, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
* Charles Sheldon Whitehouse, 79, American career diplomat, cancer.

### 26

* Paul Berry, 40, American animator (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone), brain tumor.
* William Bryant, 77, American character actor (Escape from San Quentin, Experiment in Terror, How to Murder Your Wife, The Great Race).
* Gina Cigna, 101, French-Italian dramatic soprano.
* Günter Kaslowski, 66, German Olympic cyclist.
* Margaret Kilgallen, 33, American visual artist, complications from breast cancer.
* Louis Klemantaski, 89, British photographer.
* Gopala Ramanujam, 86, Indian politician.
* Lalla Romano, 94, Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.
* Robert Smith, 88, American actor.
* Soccer, 13, American dog actor.
* Annika Tammela, 21, Estonian football player, bicycle accident.

### 27

* Sidney Buckwold, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
* Hal Goldman, 81, American screenwriter, three Primetime Emmy Awards: The Jack Benny Program (1959, 1960), An Evening with Carol Channing (1966).
* Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.
* Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author, painter and comic strip artist, lung cancer.
* Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor (The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Save the Tiger), Oscar winner (1956, 1974), bladder and colorectal cancer.
* Michael Moynihan, 84, Irish Labour Party politician.
* Chico O'Farrill, 79, Cuban composer, arranger, and conductor.
* Udo Proksch, 67, Austrian industrialist and criminal, complications during heart surgery.
* Joan Sims, 71, British actress (Carry On Nurse, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Camping, On the Up, As Time Goes By), gastrointestinal system disease.
* Jukka Wuolio, 74, Finnish ice hockey player.

### 28

* Mortimer Jerome Adler, 98, American philosopher and author.
* Ira Eisenstein, 94, American rabbi.
* Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist (Usenet), lymphoma.
* David Freeman, 80, American badminton player (multi-year U.S. Champion).
* Herbert McCabe, 74, English-Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher.
* Thomas Ernst Josef Wiedemann, 51, German-British historian, cancer.

### 29

* Mary Barnes, 86, English artist and writer.
* Manuel Echauri, 86, Mexican artist.
* Maurice Estève, 97, French painter.
* Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.
* Minoru Kawabata, 90, Japanese artist.
* Karen Lamm, 49, American film actress and producer, heart failure.
* Silvio Oddi, 90, Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat.
* Thomas E. Sparks, 89, American politician.

### 30

* Stephen Ailes, 89, American lawyer and government official, stroke.
* Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician (14 Grammy Awards, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), colorectal cancer.
* Giancarlo Brusati, 91, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
* Joe Fagan, 80, English football manager, cancer.
* Joe Henderson, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Lou Kusserow, 73, Canadian football player, complications from prostate cancer.